Agartala, Aug 24 : In a joint operation Mizoram and Tripura police recovered an amount of Rs 44.5 lakh in cash, looted from a rural block development office in Western Mizoram early this month, from four Tripura villagers in eastern bordering hamlets last night.

According to police, unknown miscreants had looted Rs 1.98 lakh from the office of BDO, Zowlnuam in Mamit district on August 8 and Mizoram police had arrested cashier of the office Mr C Lal Fakjuala and two others in connection with the case.

A police team of Mizoram headed by Karta SDPO Lal Chuang Thanga and Tripura police conducted a joint raid in Manachaerra and Chandra Kumar Para and recovered the money and arrested the accused.

During raid Jyotish Reang (18) along with Rs 8 lakh, Binode Kumar Reang (30) with Rs 28 lakh and Banke Rai Reang with Rs 8 lakh were arrested by the police and following by their information, police detained Binode Kr Reang with Rs 50,000.